ty for your interest but i have no idea! absolutely no idea. when that will continue to be a thing. As I mentioned, I suddenly work full time now, so all writing has ground to a halt while i figure that out.

002 | send me a ship and I will tell you: (bc i am slowly sailing away from acotar but i am always a slut for elucien…even if this is super late bc I’m garbage) 

• when or if I started shipping it: Actually, I think I accidentally made myself ship it many, many moons ago. When i wandered blindly into this fandom shortly post-ACOMAF there was…a fair amount of Lucien hate floating around (those were Dark Days) and I, being the loud-mouthed, insufferable bastard that I am, took issue with this and made many grumpy posts to the effect of ‘Lucien is a tortured abuse victim, stfu’. Fortunately the hate has mostly died down but when it was Strong elucien was fairly deeply unpopular because people felt that Elain ‘Deserved Better’. I got miffed about that too, so I made a little headcanons post for elucien and just…some nice thoughts and it all kind of….spiralled out of control from there and I made myself aggressively ship them. And that was mostly just me for a little while but then @valamerys appeared (bless u claire) and the rest is history.
   
• my thoughts: Right this is going to be less ‘thoughts’ abt Elucien and more ‘thoughts’ (read: salt) abt fandom’s response to them post-acowar but I just…..I don’t understand why everyone thinks that they’re doomed and sunk in ACOWAR? No, genuinely, I don’t, like…just timeline wise…Them being canon by the end of ACOWAR didn’t actually make a huge amount of sense, like it would have taken a LOT to get that to happen (especially when spin-offs that would almost certainly, if not focus, at the very least touch on, Elain and Lucien’s relationship post ACOWAR) 
  
  And if you look at it in a timeline wise and compare it to feyrhys…they’re actually further ahead than they were?? 
  
  ACOMAF picks up what, three months-ish after the end of ACOTAR? Rhys knows Feyre is his mate for that entire time and does nothing about it. At the beginning of that book Feyre is with, in love with, and actively engaged to another man. They have a damn wedding ffs. 
  
  It takes months for Feyre to get over Tamlin and to recover from her trauma of her Making, her abusive relationship, and what happened UtM. it takes weeks and weeks before Feyre and Rhys have so much as a friendly conversation with one another. It takes months before there are any romantic feelings, and then it takes even longer for them to actually get together. 
  
  I think the events of ACOWAR take place in around a month, maybe. If you compare that to feyrhys’s timeline, Feyre is a month into the Spring Court, engaged, with two months to go until her wedding/her meeting Rhys again. 
  
  At this same point, Elain and Lucien have met, talked with one another, helped one another in their own ways, acknowledged the mating bond between them, shown themselves willing to get to know one another, and it ends with Elain inviting Lucien to come to Velaris and stay there with her. Elain, by the end, also seems much more like her old self, she’s much more in control of her abilities, she wants to grow things and create again, she feels much more full of hope. Lucien, too, is moving on from his toxic past, he has left Tamlin, he is living in the Night Court, where he was invited by Elain, he and Elain now have the time and space and freedom to get to know one another, and it’s only a month into their knowing each other. 
  
  I have…No idea why this fandom is so certain that there’s no hope for this ship like ??? They’re mates and they haven’t even begun to explore what that means to them because they were busy, you know, having their own lives/plots/obstacles/trauma to overcome first but ???? Anyway. 
  
  
• What makes me happy about them:  They make so much goddamn sense fight me.  I think one of the biggest draws to this ship is that they are mutually so good for one another. I think that they both bring out sides to the other person that need to be drawn out a little.
  
  Elain teases out some softness and warmth and gentleness in Lucien, and there’s a lot of that in him, he just doesn’t often feel safe enough around anyone to be that way with them; but he does with her.
  
  And Lucien brings out a little of Elain’s spirit, a little of her fire, a little of her fierceness and that deep, unyielding strength that’s always hidden away beneath the surface gets brought to the top and it’s perfect.
  
  And I enjoy it even more because of the parallels involved in this thing: Lucien draws out of Elain what he is on the surface, witty, charismatic, fiery and wilful. and Elain draws out of Lucien what she is on the surface: gentle, kind, compassionate, and good. They bring out the best of each other but they also reflect the best of themselves and I just…Could live for years on the sustenance provided by these delicious parallels tbh.
  
  And I think there’s an aspect of hope in there with both of them as well, with them being together, I think they bring that to one another. For Lucien, Elain was a flickering light at a point where his life had rarely been darker. She was something worth fighting for; but unlike Tamlin or any of the other situations Lucien has been in, Elain is something that I think makes him fight for himself. Because she’s his mate, and will ultimately make him happy and that’s an end goal there, he’s fighting for their happiness…but in the interim, in the time it takes between then and now…She makes him fight for himself, too. He leaves his toxic position at Spring, he comes to Night, he finds purpose during the war, a role that he takes voluntarily under his own initivative (born from Elain’s visions btw) to help. He’s doing things for himself. He’s bettering his life and his world for himself, and Elain’s mere existence encourages that in him and it’s just like….Yes, okay, give Lucien someone that makes him strive to better himself and his situation, okay good, thank you.
  
  But I think that Lucien embodies a little bit of hope for Elain, too. It’s maybe not as obvious or as immediate in canon as it is for Lucien but…It’s there. The first time Elain leaves her room is to go to the library where Lucien is. Lucien suggests having a healer brought to her. Lucien tries to help her through the bond, and gets a reaction out of her. Elain seems constantly to be seeking the sun, and to be seeking Lucien as well. He is one of the very few things that she actually responds to after her making, he is one of the few people who makes her react a little more like her old self. And he is the one who shows faith in her, and her visions, and offers to journey thousands of miles and put himself in danger because he believes in her. And I think that Lucien…Is the future, for Elain. Whether or not Elucien ends up canon, these two are undeniably driving forces in the others’ stories and arcs. Elain is still in love with Greyson and still traumatised by her making but Lucien is the one certain thing about her future now. Whether she accepts or rejects the bond it is something to move towards, something she will have to confront, something that definitely exists and pulls her away from the past and towards the future.
  
  This pairing is just…So fucking underrated and it frustrates me because there is so much here and it gets so overlooked and so drowned out by other ships with louder voices in the fandom and it’s a shame, because it’s a little diamond in the rough, there’s so much potential in here and I live for it tbh.
  
  
• What makes me sad about them: THEY’RE SO GODDAMN UNDERAPPRECIATED IT BOILS MY BLOOD. 
  
  
• Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Uhh, Elain being with Azriel while Lucien gets forgotten. I’M SORRY I’M TOO FULL OF SALT. And tbh the only Elucien fics I read are Claire’s and…Claire writes them better than sjm soooooooooooo nothing annoys me. 
  
  
• Things I look for in fanfic: Claire. That is all. 
  
  
• My kinks: Ehehehehehehe (CLAIRE THIS IS ALL UR FAULT AND U KNOW IT) I think I will just direct u to this fic that Alicia and I wrote. Sums it up rather well, I feel. 
  
  
• Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: They can be in a poly relationship with Andras or nothing at all :) That is my final word on the matter. (no it’s not, I’m here for Cassian/Lucien and Elain/Mor bc Gay) 
  
  
• My happily ever after for them: Happily mated, in a big house in…a court of their choosing, that has a very large garden that they can sit together in and watch their children run around playing together :)